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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Permit needed	Berg Coll+ Counterculture U56 1972	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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[61] p.; 28 cm.

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Written in May 1972 by Jean Boudin, Shelley Cholst, Sheri Fein, Ed Friedman, Yancy Gerber, Dan Icolari, Suzanne Kaufman, Michael Ladin, Bernadette Mayer, and Frances Waldman.
First volume of a collaborative writing experiment published by Ed Friedman and Bernadette Mayer.
Mimeograph typescript text issued in mimeographed wrappers, side stapled.
Poems numbered, but untitled and unattributed.
"Unnatural Acts, the magazine that emerged from Mayer's Poetry Project workshop in 1972, also reflects a certain resistance, and suggests the distinct environment of the workshop as it contributed to the variegated nature of the St. Mark's scene as a whole. In its treatment of authorship and issues of literary property, Unnatural Acts might be situated on a continuum with such precursor little magazines as Cid Corman's Origin and Berrigan's 'C,' but it positions itself so far down that line that it ends up constituting a major departure. In its first issue, Unnatural Acts came out entirely without attribution or editorial information. Issue 1 consists of fifty-seven numbered sections, concluding comically and somewhat self-reflexively with a lone plaintive voice asking, "Does everyone here know what / an ashram is except me?"--From Libby Rifkin. "'My Little World Goes On St. Mark's Place': Anne Waldman, Bernadette Mayer and the Gender of an Avant-Garde Institution," the text of a talk delivered at the Page Mothers Conference at UCSD in San Diego in early 1999, and mounted on Jacket2 website.

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Call Number

Berg Coll+ Counterculture U56 1972

OCLC

1941411

Title

Unnatural acts.

Imprint

New York : St. Marks Poetry Project, 1972.

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Local Note

Berg Collection copy withdrawn from the University of Michigan Library, with withdrawal stamp on recto of back wrapper.

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Boudin, Jean. Contributor

Cholst, Shelley. Contributor

Fein, Sheri. Contributor

Friedman, Ed, 1950-

Gerber, Yancy. Contributor

Kaufman, Suzanne. Contributor

Ladin, Michael. Contributor

Mayer, Bernadette.

Waldman, Frances. Contributor

St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery (New York, N.Y.). Poetry Project.

Research Call Number

Berg Coll+ Counterculture U56 1972